Poor display, but its hard to get too upset when your side is coached by a bloke, who reacts to a defeat by putting his feet up in the stand and chewing gum nonchalantly.

Smith is a great coach, but he does little to sell the game to the casual fan with his 'can't-be-d' attitude to games.

A local derby, with bragging rights at stake, and Smith simply doesn't give a toss ....

Bigger fish to fry, and all that?? ....

You were poor but widnes were helped by clown downstairs not asking clown upstairs twice to Look at the screen. And the clown upstairs seeing a knock on when it was fine.

dtm.
If you saw that on the tele then I'm more sure TS wants to confuse before we play leeds. I think TS knows what he is doing.
Struth I hope so.

1 loss in 11 after our best run since the 80's.

Everybody chill out.

Perhaps its a pressure TS didn't want. although it's for the wrong reason it's like a monkey off the back.
TS was repeatedly asked in interviews about the record and tried to play it down.

Are you in fact implying we lost on purpose? It all makes sense now.

However I do think, provided we can bounce back from this in the right way, this was an ideal result in terms of a wake up call and a pressure reliever with a tough run of matches coming up.

Chill...Widnes have only had 2 bad results at home in 2014 on that green plastic stuff !

I'll give em the bad performance we was due one , we will not play that bad again for the remainder of the season , also if you look on the bright side we nearly turned it round only for some bad calls from the officials , with a completion rate of around 60% a quality side would of put 50 on us

If only I could be bothered to search for rubber duckie's we could go through the rest of season unbeaten posticon_smile.gif

We were due a defeat, not the end of the world but makes top 2 harder. Top 4 will be were we end up.

Total crap from most of the team tonight.

Widnes thoroughly deserved the win, they were better in most - if not all - departments.

Atkins was the best of our bunch - looked strong and carried the ball well, and Rhys did OK.
Apart from that..... don't get me going on that lump Asiteasy.

We were out-enthused and Widnes energy levels were higher than ours.

Hopefully it's given us a good kick up the backside - with the top 6 sides to play it'll really show us where we're at - and I don't think we're as good as many think.

Ref killed it when we were coming back into it and there was no beer left at half time. Dunno which upset me more.

Respect to Wire fans tonight they even sang Pats name during minutes applause

Yes - that was really heartening to see.
Came over well on the box

This. But It is hard to raise your game when it doesn't matter.